3 questions to help you collect will in a fist and get to work
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
After reading this article, you'll learn how to get rid of fatigue, stop being lazy excuses and just get going.
"I'm too tired". Too many of my first projects have not materialized due to this proposal. This easily can justify a failure in any work. After all, so easy to make excuses. But if you are the excuses and justification, it does not mean that they lead to the desired result.
I can always remember a time when would feel more energetic and able to do something really worthwhile, than in those moments when I say the words "I'm too tired." With this need to do something about it.
But what to do? Run a few laps? More sleep? Drink five cans of energy? (The latter only works for my fellow developers, do not try.)
We often feel mentally exhausted due to the fact that it is often distracted.
The problem is not that we are too tired. The problem is that our attention too distracted.
Most of us probably have a dozen projectsWhich we have to deal with at the same time or, even worse, to score one for the other. This fact undermines our confidence that we can make a new work well (or bring it to the end). This is a significant obstacle to us to tune in to a creative way, which makes the job so exciting.
What is the solution? If I really want to start doing something, then I need to finish it mentally. Just imagine what a job that I will have already done, and I did not give up halfway.
You need to set yourself up mentally to work. This solution sounds simple, it is akin to the ease with which we made the item is expunged from our do list. To begin, I ask myself a few questions:
- What place does this work takes in my list of priorities? After completing this task, you defeat one of the commitments cease to be nervous because of missing work or it will be easier to do something else.
- How long it will take me out to do the job? So how often we want to deal with something difficult or tedious to go to new and exciting projects in our best interest to get the job done in a reasonable time.
- Is there any psychological barriers that prevent me to complete the work? Definitely, they are: a large amount of information that must be analyzed in order to carry out the task in good faith; fear of possible difficulties that will be faced; fear of getting negative feedback. All this keeps us get down to business, and the more we feed the fears, the more difficult it will be to start working on a task.
When I have the answers to these questions, I know what you need to take first.
More important to catch the first impulse - a sense of inspiration and excitement that we experience when we start to do something new. Then get started is not as difficult as it seems. And when you do something cool, something, than you will want to share with others, because it will be interesting to them, and will bring some benefit, you will no longer feel incredibly tired.
What excuses prevent you begin to engage in the daunting task? stop prokrastinirovat and just to hide from things. Rethink source of the problem that stands between you and your work. The decision may be counter-intuitive, but perhaps, like me, you must first shut down mentally before transgress it.